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10 000 Mark Württembergische Notenbank
| Issuer | Württembergische Notenbank |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on a pale yellow-green guilloche underprint. The issuer's name, WÜRTTEMBERGISCHE NOTENBANK, appears in large capital letters along all four borders of the note. The central field carries the promise-to-pay text in Gothic script reading 'Die Württembergische Notenbank bezahlt jedem Inhaber gegen Rückgabe dieser Banknote', followed by the denomination 'Zehntausend' in a large blackletter typeface and 'MARK REICHSWÄHRUNG' in roman capitals. Below, the place and date of issue 'Stuttgart, den 20. Febr. 1923' is flanked by the control designation 'Für die Kontrolle' at left and 'Der Vorstand' at right, with two manuscript signatures beneath. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown and blue-grey on a cream ground, with a geometric underprint of interlocking zigzag guilloche bands covering the central field. The bank name 'Württembergische Notenbank' appears in Gothic script across the upper register, flanked by ornamental flourishes. Four large numerals '10000' dominate the centre, the zeros rendered as oval cartouches with fine cross-hatched fills and orange floral ornaments between them, with the word 'MARK' below in bold roman type. A red serial number appears at lower left, a circular red 'WN' Württembergische Notenbank stamp is at upper right, and a two-line anti-counterfeiting warning in Gothic script runs along the lower margin. |
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The Württembergische Notenbank was one of four German private note-issuing banks — alongside the Bayerische, Sächsische, and Badische Notenbanken — permitted to continue issuing currency alongside the Reichsbank under the German Banking Act of 1875. By early 1923, that arrangement was being stress-tested beyond anything its architects anticipated. The hyperinflationary spiral of that year forced every issuing institution in Germany to print in denominations that would have seemed absurd eighteen months earlier, and 10,000 Mark was already a transitional figure — quickly obsolete as the inflation accelerated through summer and autumn.
The Stuttgart printing location is consistent with the bank's own facilities; the Württembergische Notenbank maintained tighter geographic control over its production than some contemporaries who outsourced to Reich printers under pressure.